Letter: Seeing through BCBS tactics

I had to laugh until I cried at my Blue Cross Blue Shield letter. They told me how much they cared about keeping my costs down. My insurance bill has risen significantly every year for the past six and BCBS is using my money to pay for ads in the newspaper against the hospital closest to me.

I immediately tried to switch to the other insurance providers, but because I have to have a small group policy no other company is available to me in N.C. and if you require affordable health care then you are in the same boat.

I had to laugh until I cried when BCBS told me my local hospital no longer chose to work with them. Would you choose to work with someone who told you that they would never pay you more money than what you are making now?

I am a lifelong, insured, educated, fully employed, tax-paying Asheville resident. I am not saying that our hospital is perfect, but this manipulation by BCBS is ridiculous and we should be outraged. It is bullying in the highest form and we as individuals seem powerless to stop it.